Bruce Power

And that makes it difficult to finance and bank.

And for OPG, and especially for Bruce Power, which is, you know, OPG has Ontario ownership, but Bruce Power is...

TCN or GINA and a pension plan, as far as I understand.

They do care, you know, they have shareholders and they don't want to take on that risk.

is the very opposite of what everyone has been saying for 20 years is the key to success for nuclear.

So I think we do need a fleet model, and that's what makes us so tricky.

Ontario and OPG and Bruce Power will probably have to come to some consensus on their own.

And if it's going to be a can-do, it's going to need a lot of Ottawa dollars.

So Canada does have a real rich nuclear history.

The first reactor was actually the Douglas Point reactor at the Bruce Power nuclear site in Bruce County, Ontario.

That reactor has shut down.

It's been long decommissioned.

But on that site, there are eight other operational units, the Bruce Power units, and then also mostly units are in one of three provinces, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick.

And Quebec did have one.

Jean Tilly, they had two units there.

And then New Brunswick has had a long history.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, so can you talk a little bit about that, and is SaskPower gonna be building these, or could it be Bruce Power, or it could be someone else? And Bronwyn, I'm sure you have some thoughts on that.

Yeah.

Well, maybe I'll, I'll, I'll turn it over to Bronwyn just in a, a moment.

We appreciate your leadership, your time, and your perspectives.

To offer our appreciation, it's my pleasure to welcome back a great friend and supporter of the Empire Club, James Scognac, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Bruce Power.

Please join me in welcoming him back to the podium.

Great.

Having a long-term energy plan where we can plan to 2050, that provides us certainty.

And I just want to leave you with a couple of numbers.

on what that certainty means since august 1st this august on our site the bruce power site we have onboarded 4 000 construction workers joe's members members of the power workers union who are working because of that that certainty we're able to make a commitment that 95 cents of every single dollar we spend will be spent in canada and i just want to leave you with one other stack because i think the premier will love it yeah absolutely The premier talked about Bruce C and I know there's people all around the room would like to help us build Bruce C and we'll negotiate what those terms are at the right time.

Bruce C, not if it's built, when it's built, will require 1 million tons of steel, the equivalent of 100 Eiffel Towers.

Where do I live?

Bruce Power.

Yeah.

Of course, right? It's not even a question anymore.

Uh-

So where is Hanover?

Do you know where Bruce Power is?

Yep.

How did you realize, "I wanna go there." Um, who put the idea in your head?

So throughout my time with CUSW, I worked at all the nuclear power plants; Pickering, Darlington, Bruce Power.

So I think it was probably around 2016 when I started taking every summer I would go visit my friends in British Columbia, and through that time I fell in love with the province.

I love camping, big outdoors fan, fishing, hunting, dirt biking.

We don't own it because we prefer TC Energy.

So Enbridge has more of an oil pipeline waiting, uh, and TC Energy has, um, natural gas, having divested Southbow Energy a few years ago, and also a big stake in Bruce Power.

So we think natural gas and nuclear are the fuels of the future.

Not to say oil is going the way of the dodo bird, but we see a brighter future for nat gas distribution than we do for oil, and that's why we prefer TC Energy.

To mark the completion of construction, the Goderich BIA is hosting a celebration Saturday from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Bruce Power's supplier partners are donating $100,000 to support Ronald McDonald House Southwestern Ontario.

The funds will help expand the London facility from 40 to 80 bedrooms, doubling capacity.

Last year, 500 patient families were turned away due to a lack of space.